Spelling Bee!!!

Posted at 4:20 PM, Thursday, May 21, 2009

AUN had a spelling competition as part of the founder day's activities for fall 08. Close to 12 teams participated made of 5 members each. I also took part in the contest - Hymenopterons (my team's title) was made up of Nino, me, Hamman, Omorx, and Wisdom. A very strong group, or so most people who met us remarked. The contest was fun! Professor Pavlik was in charge and the aim was to raise funds for the library project. We had lots of judges too. I personally didn't practice too much cos I was participating for fun. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of the competition. The founder and president also attended the contest. It was scary standing on stage and trying to spell out words! Thank God everything went well and I didn't get out in the first round! I got the word 'longevity' wrong. You won't believe it but I had never head the word before :-)

There were supposed to be two winners - one who scored the most points, and one who raised the most money. The money was to go to charity for the library project (like I mentioned a few lines back). Praise God my team managed to raise the most money! I think the Dictionary Dudes got the highest score. There was also an individual winner who would win an iPod nano. I can't remember the name of the person who won the contest but he was part of the Dictionary Dudes. We also had a dinner at the president's house as part of our reward. The winning teams were invited and the faculty was actually serving us! I would say the contest was the thing I enjoyed most and I must congratulate Cheryl Pavlik for doing such a wonderful job and for giving us students something really fun to do!